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preview of the chapterGopher on the Ninth Acrylic on Panel 12x16
by John Seerey-Lester

The gopher
tortoise has become a
prominent resident of Useppa. So
entrenched in Island society, one
tortoise even had its own mailbox,
Mr. T. The artist takes you back to
when the Island was more or less a
nine-hole golf course. Seerey-Lester
imagines a gopher sharing its
home with the ninth hole, positioned
where the tennis courts are today,
behind the Club House.